How managers learn (in their own words) – White Paper
Informal learning is now widely recognised as playing an important part in the learning and performance landscape. 70% of the most effective learning takes place at work, outside of the ‘classroom’.
We wanted to know where managers looked for learning when faced with a challenge in the workplace, how frequently they did it, and how effective they perceived the different methods to be. Most importantly, we wanted to take a learner-centric approach and ask managers, not HR or learning and development professionals, whose perceptions and needs may be different.
As such, we commissioned ComRes to conduct a survey, and the findings show that managers frequently use informal activities to help them learn, and that on the whole they find them to be very or fairly effective.
Download your free copy of ‘How managers learn (in their own words)’
View the full data tables from the survey.
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By Peter Casebow – April 8, 2010
Learnstreaming – Top 10 Posts for 2010
21 Resources to Become a Better Listener
How to Use Twitter Favorites as Inputs and Outputs
Resources to Become a Better Critical Thinker- Foundational
Learnstreams Have 3 Major Actions
Resources to Become a Better Critical Thinker- Problem Solving
Start Participating by Using Small Steps
Learning Happens Everywhere Not Somewhere
Social Learning in 3 Words
View more presentations from Dennis Callahan.
This is part 1 in a series of 3 on critical thinking. Part 1 focuses on foundational critical thinking resources.
“critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you’re thinking in order to make your thinking better” Paul Richard 1992
Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts – Dr. Peter Facione’s paper about the meaning and importance of critical thinking.
Why Critical Thinking Is Not a Creativity Killer – The case for critical thinking and why it gets bad press.
Things You Really Need to Learn – Stephen Downes’s view on what we need to learn in order to be successful. It’s a great post with several critical thinking items.
The Critical Thinking Community – Mega site from The Center of Critical Thinking.
Critical Thinking On The Web – An online critical thinking directory from Austhink. The site has many resources ranging from arguments to logic and critical thinking tutorials.
Critical Thinking Compendium – A wiki resource for teaching critical thinking and Internet literacies that is led by Howard Rheingold and other respected educators.
Critical Thinking Web – Site that contains over 100 free online tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills by the Philosophy Department at the University of Hong Kong.
The Elements of Reasoning and Intellectual Standards – An interactive model of the 8 Elements of Thought from the Foundation of Critical Thinking. Includes questions to ask for each element and describes the universal intellectual standards.
The Path to Critical Thinking – If you’re overwhelmed by critical thinking concepts, take a look at Stever Robbin’s advice on how to incorporate critical thinking into your thinking.
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” Albert Einstein
Fallacy Files – Comprehensive resource for understanding logical fallacies from Gary Curtis.
Stephen’s Guide to the Logical Fallacies – Well known site that lists and describes all known logical fallacies, by Stephen Downes.
Cognitive Biases – A list of almost 150 cognitive biases (flaws in judgment) explained.
Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed — How to Foolproof Your Mind, Part I & Part II – Luciano Passuello describes 10 thinking traps and how to avoid them.
Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking – This book helps you bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analyzing the things we are told and read.
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life – This book is about becoming a better critical thinker in every aspect of your life. It addresses all three key components of thinking: analysis, evaluation and re-thinking.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – This book explains how our brains are wired and how to take advantage of your its architecture.
Stumbling on Happiness – This book helps you better understand how our brains work. Dan Gilbert provides research on why we are not good at predicting the future and what we can do about it.
A Rulebook for Arguments – This book introduces the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly.
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used.” Carl Sagan
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I don’t remember where I originally found this video but thought it was a good example of combining visual with audio. It’s also great content.
The company that created this video RSA Animate also has other videos - http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg
Here are a few things I learned on Twitter this week
@VenessaMiemis great article about cultivating a learning culture as a key to stay innovative http://icio.us/4stgqy via @palomar5
Fear of failure makes growing, getting smarter, and becoming a learning organization all but impossible. Your fear turns you into a group of “knowers” afraid of admitting their shortcomings or conceding that they don’t know everything.
@kdwashburn Great! Attracting What You Need Into Your Learning Community by @eduinnovation: http://is.gd/cKvNr
Our networks can help us attract serendipity.
@Scorpiowriter RT @USATODAY Twitter power: Learning from ourselves, in real time http://usat.me?38648552 #Twitter #social media
“Focus groups used to be the gold standard for gathering information, but Twitter is turning things around to the point where naturally occurring conversations can tell us even more”
@Jane Hart @C4LPT: Social Learning – an explanation using Twitter http://bit.ly/cRcLYT
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For those that follow my Friday's Finds - I didn't spend much time on twitter this week and won't be posting.
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Have a great weekend!
Chris Brogan’s LinkedIn posts this week had me looking at my LinkedIn account a little closer.LinkedIn is one of the 1st services that I suggest for starting your learnstream. If you have a LinkedIn account, when is the last time you’ve taken a closer look at your account?
Here are a few tips that I found during the week (5/21/10 – 5/27/10) that you may find helpful:
YOUR NETWORK NEWS – @chrisbrogan
You can click here to subscribe to YOUR LinkedIn network feed. Then, you can throw that into your RSS reader of choice (mine’s Google Reader) and suddenly have a lot of network action information at your fingertips.
KEEP LINKEDIN CLEAN – @chrisbrogan
Stop importing your Twitter feed into LinkedIn indiscriminately.
5 Reasons not to be a LinkedIn Hater – @Marijean http://bit.ly/bvAnKb
Search plays a big role in the management of your reputation. When someone googles your name, your LinkedIn profile does appear. Whether you like it or not, if you have created even an incomplete profile, it will show up in search engine results. If you have no profile at all, you are only frustrating the person who is trying to locate you (and what if they have a really great business deal or offer to extend to you
Linkedin . . . 11 Ways To Maximize Your Experience! http://goo.gl/fb/kCMQT – @YourCustomers
Invitation Templates . . . don’t use them! Nothing says “I couldn’t be bothered taking 10 seconds to write you a personal message” more than those templates.
Take on a “Go Giver” mentality. Be willing to give, proactively and without keeping a scorecard. You can accomplish this by taking on the role of “matchmaker” and introducing people within your network. Give your advice freely, offer resources, cool books, websites, etc to those in need.
The State of LinkedIn http://bit.ly/diRHec By @viralblog @Avinio
LinkedIn has almost 69 million members in over 200 countries
Here are five interesting finds that I found on Twitter last week. What did you find?
Communication Impacts Learning
@sahana2802 RT @stickylearning: RT @CatMoore Evidence-based principles of good slide design – Yes! http://bit.ly/drKQat – All should read!
“Spend less time on decorating your slides and more time on perfecting your content—your evidence. To strengthen the effectiveness of your presentation, use the time you saved from not embellishing your slides to refine your argument, details, story, and graphic.”
@Visionscaper 7 reasons Why MANY smart people have trouble communicating their ideas http://bit.ly/coaSgx by @upbeatnow /via @secr… http://post.ly/fw8c
“One reason to blame others for their communication problems is the convenience it provides. If they put the responsibility of understanding what they are saying to the listener, they can simply run away from their responsibility for communication. It is easier to complain than to take that responsibility.”
Information Flows
@rossdawson RT @sandymaxey: We’re all neurons in a global brain. Living networks by @RossDawson http://bit.ly/poveco2 #emagineers
“The future of business is one in which individuals and organizations create value primarily by rich participation in the flow and birth of information and ideas. We will do this by integrating closely with other organizations, forming networks and communities within and across organizations, truly acting as participants in a global lifeflow.”
@tdebaillon RT @timkastelle: Useful post RT @johnt: Troubles with both supply and demand for knowledge http://icio.us/y5o4cn
“On the supply side, we have trouble providing “knowledge” to the KM system or even between each other (Tall Poppy Syndrome & Shrinking Violet Syndrome).
On the demand side, we have an organization that isn’t interested in learning new thing (Not invented here syndrome & TomTom Syndrome (better known as Real Men Don’t Ask for Directions)”
Trainers & Workscapes
@joe_deegan Changing our “Trainer” mindsets to creating “Workscapes.” (via @sumeet_moghe ) http://ow.ly/1LHDF
“It’s perhaps a good idea for each one of us to stop our training factories for a while and think about what we’re trying to achieve. Do we really need the heavyweight approaches that we’re using today? Can modern, lightweight, yet highly effective technology provide us the edge to achieve our goals at the right pace? How do you feel about the transition to workscapes? How do you feel about being generalists as against training specialists?”
